Another month passes and another couple of processors are released by either Intel or AMD. The last two months have been rather busy on the CPU front. Both rivals launched their own dual-core, consumer-level CPUs with much fanfare. Dual-core CPUs, in a nutshell, offered huge and expected gains in applications that were multi-threaded in nature, with each core beavering away at code. Single-threaded application performance, and I'm primarily thinking of gaming here, showed no benefit. Indeed, if you read our Intel Pentium XE 840 review, the ultra-expensive dual-core processor posted gaming results in line with a 3.2GHz single-core CPU. Parallelism (and the price paid for it) can be both wonderful and mediocre; it all depends upon your viewpoint and usage.



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